#john r. fultz

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Map from the book Seven Princes by John R. Fultz (map by Chad Roberts).

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Deadline: January 30th, 2024 Payment: 8 cents per word for fiction, $50 per poem Theme: Character-focused, weird sword-and-sorcery: stories of a dark and transgressive nature, set in a secondary or historical-paranormal (“our” reality, but with a twist, if you will) world, What  We  Want Old Moon publishes character-focused, weird sword-and-sorcery: stories of a dark and transgressive nature, set in a secondary or historical-paranormal (“our” reality, but with a twist, if you will) world, with a focus on rounded characters undergoing some sort of conflict, resolved (though not always successfully!) by the might of their main or mind. ​ We love stories that combine that sense of action and adventure with well-rounded characters who make us question our own realities and perceptions. We love to see the gothic, the baroque, the eldritch, and we love to see it hit with an axe. Weird fiction and sword-and-sorcery can both be slippery terms. That is part of the fun! But, for our purposes we know it may help prospective writers if we list a series of authors and their stories we feel encompass (at least in part) what we love about the borderland of sword/sorcery and weird fiction: ​ Joe Abercrombie ("Three's a Crowd," "Yesterday, Near a Village Called Barden...") Laird Barron ("Oblivion Mode," "Ode to Jode the Toad") Leigh Brackett ("The Sea-Kings of Mars")  E.R. Eddison (The Worm Ouroboros) John R. Fultz ("Chivaine") Robert E. Howard ("The Shadow Kingdom," "Worms of the Earth") John Langan ("The Savage Angela in: The Beast in the Tunnels") Tanith Lee (Birthgrave, "Southern Lights") C.L. Moore ("The Black God's Kiss") Silvia Moreno-Garcia (The Return of the Sorcereress) Michael Shea (Nifft the Lean) Clark Ashton Smith ("The Charnel God," "Necromancy in Naat") E. Catherine Tobler ("The Living, Vengeant Stars, "And After the Fire, A Still Small Voice") Gene Wolfe ("Bloodsport") ​ The list could go on and on, of course, but we feel those provide a representative sample of the work we enjoy. We do not ask for pastiches of their work, but simply as examples of the diverse tones and forms weird fiction and sword/sorcery may take when at their best. Characters: We want defined, rounded characters who encounter and interact with conflict of some kind (preferably weird!) over the course of your story. ​ Narrative style: We’ve a broad taste in styles, from the poetic to the plain. Our preferred prose is vibrant yet readable. Particularly poetic prose can win us over, but it must always support the story itself. ​ Point-of-View: We prefer limited POVs: first-person and third-person limited, for example, but will accept any if done well. ​ Grammar: We tend to prefer works that stick to established rules of written English, though we understand the need to deviate for artistic purposes. ​ Originality: We want original works that speak with your authorial voice and flair. Though we love Lovecraftian works, for example, we are not necessarily all that enthused by straight pastiche.  ​ Setting: We prefer medieval and antique-adjacent settings, though we're not strict on that point. But in general, we prefer something either pre-gunpowder or early-gunpowder. It can either be a version of our own real world, or a constructed secondary world (or a combination thereof). ​ Extreme Content: We do not mind violence or sexual content, but we prefer it not be the sole or defining feature of a work. Gore for gore’s sake, extended torture scenes, depictions of extreme violence/conduct done to children, drawn-out erotic scenes and so forth are not right for our venue. ​ Fiction Submissions Guidelines ​ Length: 1000-6000 words. This is a hard limit, unfortunately. ​ Simultaneous Submissions: We do not accept them.  ​ Multiple Submissions: We do not accept them. Send only one story at a time, please, and only one story per submission window. ​ Reprints: We do not accept them at this time, unfortunately. ​ Language: English. ​ Rights: We purchase first world electronic rights and first-world print rights.

This means you cannot publish a story we buy as a first-run or “new” story anywhere else in the world; this means it can only be published elsewhere as a reprint, typically at a much lower rate.  ​ Payment: We pay 8c (0.08 USD) per word per short story. Payment occurs within 30 days of online publication, via PayPal. Poetry Submissions Guidelines ​ Subject Matter: We prefer our poems deal with the same subjects as our fiction: tales of eldritch war, images of strange melancholy, and moments of bloody reflection, among other things. ​ Exemplar poems: Our tastes run towards the antique. Some of our current favorites include John Milton's Paradise Lost, Algernon Swinburne's Tristram of Lyonesse, Robert Browning's "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came," and Charles Young's "Night-Thoughts." That being said, we are willing to be convinced by just about anything in verse, so long as it conforms to the aesthetic of our magazine. ​ Length: You may submit up to five poems, each of fifty lines or less. This is a hard limit, unfortunately. ​ Simultaneous Submissions: We do not accept them.  ​ Reprints: We do not accept them at this time, unfortunately. ​ Language: English. ​ Rights: We purchase first world electronic rights and first-world print rights. This means you cannot publish a poem we buy as a first-run or “new” poem anywhere else in the world; this means it can only be published elsewhere as a reprint, typically at a much lower rate.  ​ Payment: We pay $50 per poem. Payment occurs within 30 days of online publication, via PayPal. HOW TO SUBMIT Please send submissions as a .doc or .docx file to Old Moon's email: oldmoonpub@gmail.com Title your email "Submission: [title]." Provide a short, 1-2 line cover letter with the story's name and word count. Please do not provide an intro or synopsis of the story (we like to be surprised). ​ We'd appreciate if your manuscript was in something approaching "Standard Manuscript Format," as well. Via: Old Moon Publishing.

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Books I Read in 2023

* = Re-read

Check out past years: 2012, 2013 (skipped), 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018,  2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022. Follow me on Goodreads to get these reviews as they happen. 1) A Book of Blades: Rogues in the House Presents edited by L.D. Whitney This book, assembled by the great guys behind the premier podcast in the genre, is an excellent way to sample a breadth of contemporary Sword & Sorcery fiction! My favorite story was "The Blood of Old Shard" by John R. Fultz, with Scott Oden and Howard Andrew Jones' tales close behind, and there were no duds in the mix. "The Blood..." really surprised me with a heart and inventiveness which the opening doesn't give away yet, you realize upon finishing, deftly sets up. 2) Fires of Azeroth by C.J. Cherryh Left my big ol’ spoiler-laden review on Goodreads for ya. 3) Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time by Teju Cole 4) The Citadel of Forgotten Myths by Michael Moorcock *5) Neuromancer by William Gibson 6) The Expert System's Brother by Adrian Tchaikovsky 7) The Expert System’s Champion by Adrian Tchaikovsky I confess I finished the first book in this series having enjoyed myself, but wondering if I'd remember what I'd read a year from now. I don't have that concern with its follow-up. Tchaikovsky has enriched the world he set up in the first installment quite nicely, and I hope I get to explore it further in a third. 8) Old Moon Quarterly: Issue 3 9) Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner 10) The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday by Saad Z. Hossain 11) The Dreamthief's Daughter: A Tale of the Albino by Michael Moorcock 12) Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino Do you think you’d enjoy hearing Tarantino discuss mainly his childhood and adolescence re: movies that meant a lot to him during that period? Congrats, this is extremely that. It could not be more that. 13) The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe 14) Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different by Chuck Palahniuk Roughly 70/30 instructional / biographical. Has a lot of good advice, focusing on a more literary mode than classic genre stylings, all in a voice and coming from a place any Palahniuk fan will be familiar with (I would have been stunned NOT to find something like the "Voice of Authority" snippet in a writing book by Palahniuk). Entertaining and providing what mostly felt like useful, actionable advice, I'd say it can be handy for writers who aren't knowledgeable of the author's works, but knowing at least a couple of his books can help contextualize his advice so you can determine which parts are right for you or not. 15) Death Angel's Shadow by Karl Edward Wagner 16) Night Winds by Karl Edward Wagner 17) Wyngraf Issue #1 Edited by Nathaniel Webb 18) Rakefire and Other Stories by Jason Ray Carney 19) The White Lion by Scott Oden 20) Werner's Nomenclature of Colours: Adapted to Zoology, Botany, Chemistry, Mineralogy, Anatomy, and the Arts by Patrick Syme, Abraham Gottlob Werner (Illustrator) 21) Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin 22) Lord of a Shattered Land by Howard Andrew Jones *23) Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer 24) Authority by Jeff VanderMeer 25) Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer *26) The Sailor on the Seas of Fate by Michael Moorcock 27) Kundo Wakes Up by Saad Z. Hossain 28) Swords in the Shadows, Edited by Cullen Bunn 29) The Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose Utomi 30) Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein 31) The Encyclopedia of Amazons: Women Warriors from Antiquity to the Modern Era by Jessica Amanda Salmonson 32) New Edge Sword & Sorcery #1, Edited by Oliver Brackenbury 33) New Edge Sword & Sorcery #2, Edited by Oliver Brackenbury 34) A Book of Blades: Volume II: Rogues in the House Podcast Presents, Edited by L.D. Whitney 35) Old Moon Quarterly: Issue 4, Spring 2023: A Magazine of Dark Fantasy and Sword and Sorcery, Edited by OMQ 36) The Wingspan of Severed Hands by Joe Koch 37) The Sword of Rhiannon by Leigh Brackett 38) Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle 39) Old Moon Quarterly: Issue 5, Edited by OMQ STATS Non-Fiction: 6 Fiction: 33 Poetry Collections: 0 Comic Trades: 0 Wrote Myself: 2

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Top 5 Sci-Fi Movies Streaming Now on Netflix - Where Imagination Knows No Limits

The Call (2020)

Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller

Actor: EL, Jeon Jong-seo, Jo Kyung-sook, Jun Jong-seo, Kim Min-ha, Kim Sung-ryoung, Kim Sung-ryung, Lee Dong-hwi, Lee El, Lee Joo-young, Moon Chang-gil, Oh Jung-se, Park Ho-san, Park Hyoung-soo, Park Shin-hye, Ryu Kyung-soo, Song Yo-sep, Um Chae-young

Director: Lee Chung-hyun

Rating: R

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A woman loses her phone on her way back to her countryside childhood home. Once there, she connects an old landline in hopes of finding her lost mobile, only to start receiving weird calls that seem to be from 20 years ago.

On the other side of the receiver is a girl who seems to be in danger. The Call is thrilling, sometimes scary, but also brilliantly shot, and its plot is so expertly woven. It’s a proper movie-night movie.

Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022)

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, History, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Science Fiction

Actor: Bill Wise, Brian Villalobos, Buzz Aldrin, David DeLao, Glen Powell, Holt Boggs, Jack Black, Janis Joplin, Jennifer Griffin, Jessica Brynn Cohen, John F. Kennedy, Josh Wiggins, Keslee Blalock, Larry Jack Dotson, Lee Eddy, Milo Coy, Mona Lee Fultz, Neil Armstrong, Nick Stevenson, Richard Nixon, Samuel Davis, Walter Cronkite, Zachary Levi

Director: Richard Linklater

Rating: PG-13

Narrated by the familiar voice of Jack Black, Apollo 10 ½ is a throwback story told with admirable specificity and imagination. Black plays a grown-up Stan, who looks back on his younger years with a mix of fondness and wonder: how did they get away with the things they did then? American suburbia in the 1960s was both loose and conservative, caught between a generation holding on to the reins of the earlier century and one eager to launch into the next.

Stan, as the youngest child of a big, rowdy family, gives us a charming look into the times, as well as a projection of his own fascination: Apollo 11 and the space age. He inserts himself in this monumental narrative and generously brings us along in his fantasy. Sometimes it’s hard to tell whether Stan’s recruitment by NASA is actually fact or fiction, but that’s part of the fun, especially since Stan himself doesn’t seem to mind at all.

They Cloned Tyrone (2023)

Genre: Action, Comedy, Mystery, Science Fiction

Actor: Adam Cronan, Al-Teron, Austin Freeman, Charity Jordan, David Alan Grier, David Shae, J. Alphonse Nicholson, Jamie Foxx, Jason Burkey, Jason Louder, John Boyega, Joshua Mikel, Kiefer Sutherland, Leon Lamar, Megan Sousa, Ryan Dinning, Shariff Earp, Swift Rice, Tamberla Perry, Teyonah Parris, Trayce Malachi

Director: Juel Taylor

Rating: R

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They Cloned Tyrone is a genre-bending gem. It combines Deep State conspiracy theories with sci-fi and social commentary, all while looking like a futuristic 1970s Blaxploitation film. It’s outrageous good fun and pleasing to look at (here is a film that knows how to properly light Black actors), but there are times when it feels too far fetched. The science can get wonky and its commentary on gentrification lacking, but all is forgiven when you have such a strong trio of leads. One of the smartest things They Cloned Tyrone does is pair Boyega with Teyonah Parris, who plays the call girl Yo-yo, and Jamie Foxx, who plays the pimp Slick Charles. They have a fun-loving no-nonsense chemistry about them that makes them easy to attach to and root for. They’re also just very funny, which might be expected of Foxx but it comes as a pleasant surprise for Parris, whose popular turns in Mad Men and WandaVision prove that she’s been severely underutilized as a comic.

Snowpiercer (2014)

Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction

Actor: Adnan Haskovic, Alison Pill, Chris Evans, Clark Middleton, Dana Green, Ed Harris, Emma Levie, Ewen Bremner, Go Ah-sung, Griffin Seymour, Jamie Bell, Jim High, John Hurt, Joseph Bertót, Kendrick Roger Ong, Kenny Doughty, Ko A-sung, Ko Asung, Luke Pasqualino, Luna Sophia Bar-Cohen, Magda Weigertová, Marcanthonee Reis, Octavia Spencer, Parry Shen, Paul Lazar, Peter Hallin, Robert Russell, Sean Connor Renwick, Song Kang-ho, Stephen Park, Steve Park, Tilda Swinton, Tomáš Dianiška, Tómas Lemarquis, Tyler John Williams, Vlad Ivanov

Director: Bong Joon-ho

Rating: R

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Snowpiercer is an under-the-rader post-apocalyptic thriller that offers the grittiness that many times only Asian cinema may achieve. South Korean director Joon-ho Bong forces audiences to forget that Chris Evans was ever a Marvel superhero, as he leads a revolt of his fellow “low-class” citizens against the self-appointed gentry in a train that contains all remaining members of the planet. With immersive environments and a layered script, this film melds together social commentary and moral discourse in a visually arresting and vastly entertaining package.

Okja (2017)

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Science Fiction

Actor: Ahn Seo-hyun, Ahn Seong-bong, Amber Snow, An Seo Hyun, Andreas Fronk, Ann Evans, Barbara Wallace, Bettina Skye, Boyd Ferguson, Byun Hee-bong, Byun Heebong, Carl Montoya, Cho Wan-ki, Choi Hee-seo, Choi Woo-shik, Colm Hill, Cory Gruter-Andrew, Daniel Henshall, David Bloom, Devon Bostick, Eha Urbsalu, Erik De Boer, Faith Logan, Giancarlo Esposito, Han Yi-jin, J. C. Williams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamar Greene, Kathryn Kirkpatrick, Kim Chul-moo, Kim Moon-hak, Kristoffe Brodeur, Kwak Jin-seok, Kyul Hwi, Lee Bong-ryeon, Lee Jung-eun, Lena Avgust, Lily Collins, Lynn Marocola, Martin Lo Rimorin, Michael D. Joseph, Michael Mitton, Milo Shandel, Myles Humphus, Nancy Amelia Bell, Niall Cunningham, Park Jeong-gi, Park Keun-rok, Paul Dano, Pavla Tan, Phillip Garcia, Rebecca Husain, Rickland Powell, Seo-Hyun Ahn, Shirley Henderson, Steven Garr, Steven Yeun, Tilda Swinton, Waris Ahluwalia, Woo Shik Choi, Yoon Je Moon, Yoon Kyung-ho

Director: Bong Joon-ho, Joon-ho Bong

Rating: TV-MA

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Director Bong Joon-ho (Snowpiercer) does something quite amazing with the $50 million budget Netflix gave him: he makes a simplistic movie. But man, is it good. Okja tells the story of a “super pig” experiment that sends genetically modified pigs to top farmers around the world. In Korea, a farmer’s granddaughter forms a special relationship with one of these super pigs (Okja). When the company who originally ran the experiment want their pig back (performances by Jake Gyllenhaal and Tilda Swinton) – the two find an ally in an animal advocacy group led by Jay (Paul Dano). This is a straightforward movie, but nevertheless it is entertaining and full of thought-provoking themes and performances from an excellent cast.

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Original Release: 4/15/2023

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Showrunners: Ryoma Ishizuka Lucía Lobosvilla

Voice Directors: Lucía Lobosvilla Anthony Rodriguez

Composers: James A Reilly Aneesh Kashalikar Cyrus 'Moustronaut' Whitt

Head Audio Engineer: Sam Gabriel

Mixing Engineers: Ryoma Ishizuka John Kelly Parrott

Line Placement: Grant Corvin Sam Gabriel Xuan Vinh Huynh Valravn

Mastering: Kim Morton

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Patrons: Day Pokejedservo Madgod Mikosun Victoria McMullen Nichelle Phillips Prodogg Akiizayoi4869 Daniel Lacey Len Hagaren Tarryn Campbell Melissa Palacios Minnichi Akiizayoi4869 Can You Feel It Now (CYFIN) Mr. Krabs James Rath Shay B Lillie Ferland

Voice Cast

Aang - Ryoma Ishizuka Katara - Stephanie Pines Toph - Kauthar Harrak-Sharif Sokka - Grant Corvin Zuko - Cade Watts Appa/Momo - Josh Lee Sneers - Omar Martinez Jr Kori Morishita - Krystal Martinez Xing Ying - Mel Valentine Smellerbee - Shakyra Dunn Suki - Victoria McMullen General How - Ryan Hoyle Ozai - Jakob Dillon Penga - Heidi Tabing The Dark One - Jazzy Oliver Ho-Tun - Adam New King Kuei - Andre Faris Iroh - D. Tyler Fultz Azula - Lucía Lobosvilla Ursa - Chara Lin Kenji - JJ Williams Kota - James A. Reilly General Jee - Patrick Mealey Go Go Go Guy - Anthony Rodriguez Yudao Resident 1 - Anthony Rodriguez Yudao Resident 2 - Taylor Sameyah Yudao Resident 3 - Adam New Yudao Resident 4 (Mochi Guy) - Anthony Rodriguez Roku - Josh Lee Kyoshi - Jialing Pan Kuruk - Ryan Seale Yangchen - Su Ling Chan

Extras (Walla) Anthony Rodriguez John Archer II Lucía Lobosvilla Nichelle Phillips Maia Harlap Iris V Jazzy Oliver D. Tyler Fultz Alison Turjancik Cade Watts Adam New Jakob Dillon

[weirdletter]

Weirdbook #43, edited by Douglas Draa, Wildside Press, 2020. Cover art by Dusan Kostic, info: Facebook.

The 43rd issue of Weirdbook, under the editorship of Doug Draa, presents new tales of fantasy and horror in the grand Weird Tales tradition.  Included this time are short Stories by Darrell Schweitzer, John R. Fultz, Sharon Cullars. D.C. Lozar, Andrew Darlington, Franklyn Searight, Edward Morris and Konstantine Paradias,, Glynn Owen Barrass, Adrian Cole, Nicole Givens Kurtz, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., Michael S. Walker, Rivka Jacobs, and L.F. Falconer. Plus a file selection of poetry by Jeff Barnes, Maxwell I. Gold, Neva Bryan, Ashley Dioses, K.A. Opperman, Ann K.Schwader, W.D. Clifton, Ngo Binh Anh Khoa, Chad Hensley, Frederick J. Mayer, and Gregg Chamberlain.

Contents: From the Editor's Tower – Douglas Draa In Memoriam: Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. An American Story – Darrell Schweitzer Danse Macabre – Jeff Barnes Impervious to Reason, Oblivious to Fate – John R. Fultz A Sum Total – Maxwell I. Gold The River – Sharon Cullars Night Hag – Neva Bryan Taking Out the Trash – D.C. Lozar What is the Season? – Ashley Dioses Arthur Wardrobe and Asia Anastacia: A Love Story – Andrew Darlington Snack Time – Franklyn Frank Searight Empress of Vampires – K.A. Opperman Godlike – Edward Morris and Konstantine Paradias Dark Rift – Ann K. Schwader RonKonKoma – Glynn Owen Barrass Kings Pyre – W.D. Clifton Dragon's Gold – Ngo Binh Anh Khoa The Fury of Angels – Adrian Cole Keisha's Dinosaur – Nicole Given Kurtz Will Home Remember Me? – Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. You're Gonna Love This song – Michael S. Walker The Pumpkin Boy on Samhain – Chad Hensley Frozen Time – Rivka Jacobs Gol-Goroth Fane Frederick J. Mayer Lucien Greyshire and the Ghost from Applebee's – L.F. Falconer Doom of the Season – Gregg Chamberlain

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[quarkmaster]

Son of Tall Eagle

Cover for novel "SON OF TALL EAGLE" by John R. Fultz / Ragnarok Publications

Alex Raspad

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Submission Window: January 1st-30th, 2023 Payment: 0.08 USD per word Theme: character-focused, weird sword-and-sorcery: stories of a dark and transgressive nature What  We  Want Old Moon publishes character-focused, weird sword-and-sorcery: stories of a dark and transgressive nature, set in a secondary or historical-paranormal (“our” reality, but with a twist, if you will) world, with a focus on rounded characters undergoing some sort of conflict, resolved (though not always successfully!) by the might of their main or mind. ​ We love stories that combine that sense of action and adventure with well-rounded characters who make us question our own realities and perceptions. We love to see the gothic, the baroque, the eldritch, and we love to see it hit with an axe. Weird fiction and sword-and-sorcery can both be slippery terms. That is part of the fun! But, for our purposes we know it may help prospective writers if we list a series of authors and their stories we feel encompass (at least in part) what we love about the borderland of sword/sorcery and weird fiction: Laird Barron ("Oblivion Mode," "Ode to Jode the Toad") E.R. Eddison (The Worm Ouroboros) John R. Fultz ("Chivaine") Robert E. Howard ("The Shadow Kingdom," "Worms of the Earth") Caitlin R. Kiernan ("The Sea Troll's Daughter") John Langan ("The Savage Angela in: The Beast in the Tunnels") Tanith Lee (Birthgrave, "Southern Lights") C.L. Moore ("The Black God's Kiss") Silvia Moreno-Garcia (The Return of the Sorcereress) Michael Shea (Nifft the Lean) Clark Ashton Smith ("The Charnel God," "Necromancy in Naat") E. Catherine Tobler ("The Living, Vengeant Stars, "And After the Fire, A Still Small Voice") Gene Wolfe ("Bloodsport") ​ The list could go on and on, of course, but we feel those provide a representative sample of the work we enjoy. We do not ask for pastiches of their work, but simply as examples of the diverse tones and forms weird fiction and sword/sorcery may take when at their best. Characters: We want defined, rounded characters who encounter and interact with conflict of some kind (preferably weird!) over the course of your story. ​ Narrative style: We’ve a broad taste in styles, from the poetic to the plain. Our preferred prose is vibrant yet readable. Particularly poetic prose can win us over, but it must always support the story itself. ​ Point-of-View: We prefer limited POVs: first-person and third-person limited, for example, but will accept any if done well. ​ Grammar: We tend to prefer works that stick to established rules of written English, though we understand the need to deviate for artistic purposes. ​ Originality: We want original works that speak with your authorial voice and flair. Though we love Lovecraftian works, for example, we are not necessarily all that enthused by straight pastiche.  ​ Setting: We prefer medieval and antique-adjacent settings, though we're not strict on that point. But in general, we prefer something either pre-gunpowder or early-gunpowder. It can either be a version of our own real world, or a constructed secondary world (or a combination thereof). ​ Extreme Content: We do not mind violence or sexual content, but we prefer it not be the sole or defining feature of a work. Gore for gore’s sake, extended torture scenes, depictions of extreme violence/conduct done to children, drawn-out erotic scenes and so forth are not right for our venue. ​ Submissions Guidelines ​ Length: 1000-6000 words. This is a hard limit, unfortunately. ​ Simultaneous Submissions: We do not accept them.  ​ Multiple Submissions: We do not accept them. Send only one story at a time, please. ​ Language: English. ​ Rights: We purchase first world electronic rights and first-world print rights This means you cannot publish a story we buy as a first-run or “new” story anywhere else in the world;

this means it can only be published elsewhere as a reprint, typically at a much lower rate.  ​ Payment: We pay 8c (0.08 USD) per word per short story. Payment occurs within 30 days of online publication, via PayPal.   HOW TO SUBMIT Please send submissions as a .doc or .docx file to Old Moon's email: oldmoonpub@gmail.com Title your email "Submission: [title]." Provide a short, 1-2 line cover letter with the story's name and word count. Please do not provide an intro or synopsis of the story (we like to be surprised). ​ We'd appreciate if your manuscript was in something approaching "Standard Manuscript Format," as well. Via: Old Moon Publishing.

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2016-2017 John R. Wooden Award favorites heading into March Madness

2016-2017 John R. Wooden Award favorites heading into March Madness

from left to right: North Carolina SF/G Justin Jackson, Villanova G Josh Hart, Kansas G Frank Mason III, UCLA G Lonzo Ball and Purdue PF/C Caleb Swanigan)

It is that time of year where the entire Sports world will be turning their attention to the exciting and intense world of March Madness. Before the brackets get filled out, tickets have to be punched as of the results of the Conference…

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Mountains of Madness Revealed, edited by Darrell Schweitzer, PS Publishing, 2019. Cover art by J.K. Potter, info: pspublishing.co.uk.

In his celebrated novella At the Mountains of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft told of the discovery of a vast, alien city buried beneath Antarctic ice: millions of years old, filled with shocking secrets about the history of life on Earth, and not entirely uninhabited. After the Miskatonic University expedition of 1930 came to a disastrous end, further exploration was either discouraged or suppressed. The city of the Elder Things slept once more, and the world seemed safe from whatever the Mountains of Madness still harbored. Decades later, global warming melts ice caps and glaciers retreat. That which was once hidden is hidden no longer. So what happens when that horror-filled city of Elder Things and shoggoths is in plain sight, its existence impossible to deny? How will mankind deal with the realization we are masters of the Earth only by sheer chance? Something is stirring, that mastery may be coming to an end. What happens next? Denial? Exploitation? The rise of strange cults? Maybe even an ill-advised attempt at tourism? Or will the cosmic forces now awakened engulf the entire planet? Here are some of the answers: stories by Adrian Cole, Gordon Linzner, James Chambers, Melinda LaFevers, John R. Fultz, Harry Turtledove, James Van Pelt, Robert M. Price, Don Webb, John Shirley, Paul Di Filippo, Frederic S. Durbin, John Linwood Grant, Geoffrey Hart, Amdi Silvestri, Géza A.G. Reilly, and Darrell Schweitzer. Verse by Ann K. Schwader and Adam Bolivar. The Mountains of Madness... revealed.

Contents: Introduction — Darrell Schweitzer Climate of Fear — Ann K. Schwader. Cold Storage — Adrian Cole Beyond the Thaw — Gordon Linzner Echoes from the Ice — James Chambers New Birth — Melinda LaFevers The Embrace of Elder Things — John R. Fultz The Hill of the Beast — Harry Turtledove Skinny Dipping with the Old Ones — James Van Pelt The Unspeakable Spawning of the Proto-Shoggoths — Robert M. Price The Water of Dhul Nun — Don Webb A Boy and His Shoggoth — John Shirley The Yog-Sothoth Policeman’s Union — Paul Di Filippo The Evening Calm — Frederic S. Durbin Strange Perfumes of a Polar Sun — John Linwood Grant At the Mountains of Magnates — Geoffrey Hart In Everything a Sound — Amdi Silvestri A Wind from the South — Géza A.G. Reilly Down to a Sunless Sea — Darrell Schweitzer The Ballad of the Black Mountain — Adam Bolivar

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Weirdbook Annual #2: Cthulhu

Weirdbook Annual #2: Cthulhu

My story “A Noble Endeavor” is in the new Weirdbook Annual #2. This edition contains a variety of Lovecraftian horror and dark fantasy tales.

Here’s the full table of contents:

���The Shining Trapezohedron” by Robert M. Price

“A Noble Endeavor” by Lucy A. Snyder

“Ancient Astronauts” by Cynthia Ward

“The Thing in the Pond” by John R. Fultz

“Enter The Cobweb Queen” by Adrian Cole

“Tricks No…

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Your Wednesday Morning Roundup

The Sixers only had two true centers for last night’s game against the Magic: Amir Johnson and Justin Patton. Not the best duo to go with. But you had Mike Scott who could slide in at the 5.

Thanks to JJ Redick’s 26 points and double-doubles from Tobias Harris and Ben Simmons, the Sixers got a 114-106 win over Orlando. That’s Markelle Fultz‘s new team.

When it came to crunch time, Jimmy Butler showed up. He had a couple of big buckets along with a steal and assist on a Mike Scott three to seal the win for a short-handed Sixer squad.

Speaking of Embiid, he won’t play tonight in the second half of a back-to-back in Chicago against the Bulls. But there’s a chance he meets the team in Houston and be ready to play on Friday. That’d be a big game to get him back. But while we wait for him, he wasn’t happy with Real Madrid yesterday:

We need to go out and sign players this summer…. Tough times as a Madrid fan!!!! Hi @hazardeden10 lol #HalaMadrid

— Joel Embiid (@JoelEmbiid) March 5, 2019

The Sixers are still a half-game behind Indiana for third in the Eastern Conference. Indiana beat the Bulls last night. Now, it’ll be the Sixers playing Chicago tonight at 8 PM on NBC Sports Philadelphia and somehow on ESPN.

In non-game news, check out the Sixers Youth Foundation Gala silent auction for some cool gifts.

The Roundup:

Start the day off with a new episode of the Crossing Broadcast. It’s mainly on Bryce Harper and the Phillies.

Speaking of those Phillies and Harper, the new right fielder, as well as managing partner/principal owner John Middleton, went on WIP yesterday. But Harper may have caused a little controversy with the Angels and Mike Trout with some tampering.

Also, Scott Boras called Middleton a patient SOB. I agree.

Lane Johnson had his contract restructured and also referenced one of Nick Foles’ huge body parts. Here’s the money aspect of it:

Source: Lane Johnson restructured his contract by converting $10.045M of his base salary into a signing bonus. He’s now due a base salary of $805K for 2019. This creates close to $6.7M in cap space for the Eagles.

— Field Yates (@FieldYates) March 6, 2019

The Flyers have a big home game tonight against the Washington Capitals. Puck drop is at 7:30 PM on NBC Sports Philadelphia. If you want to go to that game or any other next year, it’ll come with higher ticket prices.

Last night was the 15th anniversary of the infamous Senators-Flyers brawls. The best kind of hockey.

In college hoops, Fatts Russell scored a career-high 41 points and Rhode Island’s last 19 in an 86-85 overtime win over St. Joe’s.

In other sports news, Antonio Brown might be traded soon:

Teams that have spoken to the Steelers about a potential Antonio Brown trade have been told that a deal is expected to be in place by Friday, per league sources.

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) March 6, 2019

Kansas ain’t winning a regular season Big 12 title this year.

Jaylen Brown describes the Celtics’ atmosphere as “toxic.” Hate to see it!

Tim writes on the shaming of Shawny Hill a couple months after his incident with the Wings.

In the news, Philly Taco Bell employees were fired after video surfaced of a fight.

R. Kelly had a wild interview with Gayle King.

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The Next Phase Of NBA Superteam Technology: Creating One From Scratch

When healthy, San Antonio Spurs swingman Kawhi Leonard is a card-carrying MVP candidate and one of the game’s premier all-around talents. But here’s the thing: Leonard hasn’t really been healthy since the 2017 playoffs, when he landed awkwardly on Zaza Pachulia’s foot in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals. Between that season-ending ankle sprain and a mysterious quad injury that sidelined Leonard for all but nine games of the 2017-18 season — fueling rumors of a growing rift with the Spurs organization — most of the recent headlines about Leonard have been over rehab schedules and locker-room turmoil, not his on-court brilliance.

Friday’s report that Leonard wants a trade out of San Antonio was the latest (and most significant) piece of news in that department yet. According to ESPN’s Chris Haynes and Adrian Wojnarowski, Leonard would prefer to be traded to the Los Angeles Lakers, which might help lay the groundwork for a superteam featuring Leonard, LeBron James and Paul George. These rumors were enough to cause a spike in the Lakers’ playoff futures, where they now have 6-1 odds of winning the 2018-19 title — after winning just 35 games last season. But while that development would shift the paradigm, would this Big Three really be able to challenge the Warriors for supremacy in the West? And are the Lakers even the team that can offer the best package in return for Leonard?

If L.A. does manage to reel in the trio of stars, it would finally replenish the Lakers’ supply of future Hall of Famers, a resource the franchise mined for championship runs almost continuously from the 1940s through the 2000s (before Kobe Bryant retired to become an Oscar-winning filmmaker). It would also represent a brand new kind of Big Three, one made entirely from scratch. Up until very recently, history’s top three-star arrangements came together at least semi-organically, with one (if not two) of the members already on the roster before the third piece of the puzzle was added. Even in newer cases such as the 2010-11 Miami Heat, you usually needed at least one existing player on the roster to play Dwyane Wade’s role and help recruit other stars to join up.

To illustrate this, here’s a list of just about every notable1 NBA Big Three since the ABA merger, along with how many of its members were already on the team before the final member joined:

A Kawhi-LeBron-PG-13 Big Three would be unique

Notable NBA Big Threes since the 1976 ABA-NBA merger, by year formed and number of stars who were already on the team’s roster

Year Team Star 1 Star 2 Star 3 prev. Stars 2019 Lakers (?) LeBron James Kawhi Leonard Paul George 0 2018 Rockets Chris Paul James Harden Trevor Ariza 2 2018 Thunder R. Westbrook C. Anthony Paul George 1 2017 Warriors Kevin Durant Stephen Curry Draymond Green 2 2015 Cavaliers LeBron James Kevin Love Kyrie Irving 1 2013 Lakers Kobe Bryant Pau Gasol Dwight Howard 2 2012 Clippers Chris Paul Blake Griffin DeAndre Jordan 2 2011 Heat LeBron James Dwyane Wade Chris Bosh 1 2010 Thunder Kevin Durant R. Westbrook James Harden 2 2008 Celtics Kevin Garnett Ray Allen Paul Pierce 1 2008 Lakers Kobe Bryant Pau Gasol Lamar Odom 2 2004 Lakers Shaquille O’Neal Kobe Bryant Gary Payton 2 2004 T-Wolves Kevin Garnett Latrell Sprewell Sam Cassell 1 2003 Spurs Tim Duncan Manu Ginobili Tony Parker 2 1997 Rockets H. Olajuwon Charles Barkley Clyde Drexler 2 1996 Bulls Michael Jordan Scottie Pippen Dennis Rodman 2 1994 Jazz Karl Malone John Stockton Jeff Hornacek 2 1994 Magic Shaquille O’Neal Penny Hardaway Nick Anderson 2 1988 Bulls Michael Jordan Scottie Pippen Horace Grant 1 1987 Pistons Isiah Thomas Adrian Dantley Bill Laimbeer 2 1983 76ers Julius Erving Moses Malone Bobby Jones 2 1983 Lakers K. Abdul-Jabbar Magic Johnson James Worthy 2 1981 Celtics Larry Bird Robert Parish Kevin McHale 1

Includes Big Threes formed by adding players through the draft.

Source: Basketball-Reference.com

With Leonard coming from San Antonio, James from Cleveland and George from Oklahoma City, this would be the first Big Three we could find that formed with three newcomers all meeting in a new city. Things have been trending in that direction for a while: Although the vast majority of Big Threes in the 1980s and ’90s were formed by adding a third star to a two-man core, plenty of recent Big Threes have seen two new faces joining one existing star’s squad. But this would be a new Big Three experiment that pushes the boundaries of how they can be formed even further.

If the Lakers do manage to haul in Leonard, George and James, their new team would instantly be good enough to at least give the Warriors some competition in the Western Conference next season. Let’s mix our CARMELO projections, which use historical comparisons to model out a potential career arc for each current NBA player, with the L.A. superteam scenario detailed here by my colleague Kevin Pelton. In it, he assumes the Lakers sign James and George with their cap room, and that San Antonio accedes to a trade that sends Lonzo Ball, Kyle Kuzma and Luol Deng’s onerous contract to the Spurs in exchange for Leonard. Here’s how CARMELO thinks that team looks on paper:

What a Lakers superteam might look like

Projected depth chart for the hypothetical 2018-19 Los Angeles Lakers, with CARMELO player projected plus/minus

Projected Plus/Minus Pos Player Age MPG Offensive Defensive Total PG Brandon Ingram 21 31 -0.3 -0.5 -0.8 Tyler Ennis 24 16 -1.1 -0.7 -1.8 SG Paul George 28 36 +2.0 +0.5 +2.5 Josh Hart 23 24 +0.5 -0.7 -0.2 SF Kawhi Leonard 27 28 +2.1 +1.3 +3.4 PF LeBron James 34 36 +5.4 +0.8 +6.2 Thomas Bryant 21 12 -1.4 -0.1 -1.5 C Nerlens Noel 24 20 -2.3 +2.8 +0.5 Ivica Zubac 21 14 -2.0 +1.0 -1.0 Replacement-level players 23 -1.7 -0.3 -2.0 Team total 240 +3.7 +2.1 +5.9

Assumes Lakers sign LeBron James and Paul George with cap space, trade with San Antonio for Kawhi Leonard and use a salary-cap exception to sign a big man (such as Nerlens Noel).

Age is as of Feb. 1, 2019.

Source: ESPN.com

CARMELO would expect that team, with a projected efficiency margin of plus-5.9 points per 100 possessions, to win about 54 games next season, even with stray waiver-wire pickups logging 10 percent of the team’s available minutes. The team would also have the star power of a bona fide championship contender, with James arguably ranking as the best player in the league,2 Leonard capable of snagging MVP votes and George checking in as a five-time All-Star by the age of 28. There would be questions about fit — since James, Leonard and George overlap in both position and skill set — and no guarantees about Leonard’s health. But this Big Three would certainly vault L.A. back into the championship conversation, where it hasn’t resided in a while.

However, before these Laker bros start making plans for a parade down Figueroa Street next June, it’s fair to ask whether the Lakers are really the most likely destination for Leonard. Although Leonard may want to play in L.A., he’s also still under contract with the Spurs for one more season, so San Antonio still controls where he’d eventually end up landing. And if they can help it, I’m guessing Gregg Popovich and R.C. Buford would prefer not to set a superteam up for the franchise that’s faced the Spurs in 34 playoff games since San Antonio’s dynasty began in the late nineties.

Moreover, Los Angeles may not even have the best package to offer the Spurs in a deal for Leonard. Our colleagues at ESPN.com put together their seven favorite potential Leonard trades, including the Lakers’ Ball/Kuzma/Deng swap mentioned above. For each of those scenarios, I added up CARMELO’s five-year upside values, which project a player’s wins above replacement over the next five seasons with negative-value comparable players zeroed out.3 According to that measure, L.A.’s deal is among the best San Antonio might be able to get — but it has competition from Miami, Toronto, Philadelphia and others:4

Who will teams offer in exchange for Kawhi?

Five-year CARMELO upside* values for selected trade packages involving Kawhi Leonard, according to ESPN.com’s Insiders

team Players tot. MIA Dragic 5 Richardson 14 Winslow 11 Adebayo 17 48 LAL Ball 37 Kuzma 10 Deng 1 47 TOR DeRozan 12 Anunoby 22 Siakam 11 45 PHI Covington 24 Fultz 8 10th pick 9 40 BOS Irving 24 27th pick 3 27 BOS Hayward 7 Rozier 14 21 POR McCollum 12 Rd 1 pick 4 16

* CARMELO’s “upside” measurements are a version of our ratings in which comparable players who project to have a negative value are zeroed out instead.

Numbers may not add up because of rounding.

Source: ESPN.com

Injury status notwithstanding, superstars like Leonard don’t come up for grabs on the trade market often, and where they end up landing can often shape the destiny of the league. If Leonard does ultimately team up with James and George, the resulting Big Three would indeed reshape the NBA championship picture for years to come. The financials of such a deal are tricky, though doable. What’s unknown now is the desire of Leonard, James and George to play together — a necessary component, since the latter two are free agents — and whether the Spurs would be willing to trade their star to a rival team in the West. In other words, this Big Three is unlikely as the situation currently stands. But just the same, we’ve seen stranger things than this happen during the NBA’s summer silly season. Stay tuned.

from News About Sports https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-next-phase-of-nba-superteam-technology-creating-one-from-scratch/